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'Priest Genuflects Before Mother and Child' - Limited Edition 1 of 20 Photograph

John Crosley

United States

Photography, Black & White on Paper

Size: 31.3 W x 40 H x 0.1 D in

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'Priest Genuflecting Before Mother and Child' This photo is vintage 1968, Manhattan, New York City. Early in my career as a photographer I knew I had previously seen important scenes I wanted to preserve before I had begun to photograph but lacked photographic skills and equipment to preserve them. In 1968 soon after acquiring my first camera, walking the streets of Manhattan's upper West Side, I walked past a wealthy church and saw this priest standing, talking with a mother and child. The concept of a priest genuflecting before a Madonna and Jesus figure immediately sprung to mind. I entered the church, walked down the aisle, raised camera, waiting and hoping this group might assume the genuflection attitude or another symbolic and meaningful position. In earnest discussion, none of this group noticed me. Soon the standing priest kneeled and did indeed genuflect before this Madonna and Jesus stand-in, completing the scenario I had envisioned. This began a photographic lifetime of predicting and even helping create scenes that likely would occur,by my moving to a place for best possible capture, then waiting for the scene to appear as imagined. Time has shown that I sometimes have an almost uncanny ability to predict certain human behaviors and movements and to previsualize certain scenes. This sense is far from certain, is driven by instinct and insight, and has paid off in my being in at the right place the right moment far more often than sheer luck would dictate. The ability to 'previsualize' is a tremendous asset in my photographer's grab bag of tricks.

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Photography:Black & White on Paper

Artist Produced Limited Edition of:1

Size:31.3 W x 40 H x 0.1 D in

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I am a photographer who has taken in the past 12 years, over est. 2 million images, mostly street, with many shown previously under various host sites to over est. 200 million counted viewers. I practiced law very successfully in Silicon Valley, CA for nearly two decades; retiring at about age 40. I am a graduate of NYC's Columbia College, Columbia University. As editor/writer/photographer, I won the Lebhar-Friedman Publishing Blue Chip award for excellence in writing, editing, and photography. For law,I won a variety of awards and special recognition. I attended law school in Silicon Valley, graduating with honors and founding my own Silicon Valley law firm, from which I retired in the late 1980s. I have worked side by side with over a half dozen Pulitzer prize-winning photographers, was shot once, and later medically evacuated from Vietnam while photographing the war there. Self-taught in photography, later, among others, I have been mentored by the following: 1. Henri Cartier-Bresson 2. Sal Vader, Pulitzer winner, Associated Press 3. Wes Gallagher, President/Ceo of Associated Press who groomed me to replace him as A.P. head. 4. Sam Walton, Wal-Mart founder who tried to lure me into his smaller company, now the world's largest. retailer. 5. Walter Baring, Peabody award winner, WRVR-FM NYC's premier cultural radio station. 6./ A variety of great photographers, many Pulitzer winners, including many also from Associated Press,/ Many were Vietnam war colleagues from my freelancing the Vietnam war; others from AP NYC world headquarters. I took H C-B's advice: 'Shoot for yourself, John,' to avoid photo work that would require shooting in a special style. not my own. HCB's s generous, helpful advice also resulted in a career with AP wire service as a world news writer and editor, world service, Associated Press world headquarters, NYC. 6. Michel Karman, Lucie Award photo printer and photo exhibition genius. ent in two 'wars' -- the Vietnamese War, and a prisoner of war taken by Russian separatists in the current Ukrainian--Russian Separatist battles that killed over 10,000 and displaced over 1 million. While writing and as a worldwide photo editor for Associated Press, I was asked to understudy their CEO (worldwide General Manager), to become successor general manager on his retirement, but declined the position. I live the lifestyle of a photographer and am proud of it.

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